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Subject: Re: portupgrade eats my swap space
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On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:25:57AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> OK, this is an old PIII 1 GHZ , 500 MB RAM  running
>> 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sun Jan 15 05:56:00 CET 2006
>>
>> When I start a
>>
>>   # portupgrade -a
>>
>> up to 671 MB swap are used and I see this message:
>>
>>   make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Resource temporarily
>>   unavailable
>>
>> and of course everything becomes really slow. Has anybody else
>> seen this?
>
> You are setting an illegal variable in your make.conf or environment
> that is causing the port makefile to recurse.  Probably USE_GCC or
> some other USE_*.
That could be a hint. I can find legal options in
   /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
can I ?

Uli.

>
> Kris
>



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